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Bible Commentaries
The Church Pulpit Commentary Church Pulpit Commentary
John the Baptist; Jesus' Baptism and Temptation.Chapter 2
Healing of Paralytic; Call of Matthew. Questions about Fasting and SabbathChapter 3
Healing on Sabbath; Choosing the Twelve.Chapter 4
Parables of the Sower; Calming the Storm.Chapter 5
Healing of the Demoniac; Jairus' Daughter; Bleeding Woman.Chapter 6
Rejection at Nazareth; Feeding 5,000; Walking on Water.Chapter 7
Traditions vs. Commandments; Healing of a Deaf Man.Chapter 8
Feeding 4,000; Peter's Confession; Prediction of Suffering.Chapter 9
Transfiguration; Healing of a Possessed Boy; Teachings.Chapter 10
Teachings on Divorce; Rich Young Ruler; Jesus Predicts Death.Chapter 11
Triumphal Entry; Cleansing of the Temple.Chapter 12
Parables of Tenants; Questions on Resurrection; Greatest Commandment.Chapter 13
Olivet Discourse; Signs of the End Times.Chapter 14
Anointing at Bethany; Last Supper; Gethsemane.Chapter 15
Trial before Pilate; Crucifixion; Death.Chapter 16
Resurrection; Appearances; Great Commission.
- Mark
by Editor - James Nisbet
Mark 1:1 What is the Gospel?
Mark 1:1 The Genesis of the Gospel
Mark 1:3 The Voice in the Wilderness
Mark 1:4 The Baptism of Repentance
Mark 1:9-11 Christ’s Baptism and its Results
Mark 1:12-13 Lenten Lessons
Mark 1:12-13 Christ and the Christian
Mark 1:13 The Ministry of Angels
Mark 1:14-15 The Coming of the Kingdom
Mark 1:15 The Old, Old Sermon
Mark 1:17 Conditions of Successful Service
Mark 1:21-22 The Voice of Authority
Mark 1:23 An Act of Power
Mark 1:30-31 A Domestic Drama
Mark 1:35 In a Solitary Place
Mark 1:41 Strength and Sympathy
Mark 1:43-45 Reserve in Religion
Mark 2:1 Christ in Us
Mark 2:3 Vicarious Faith
Mark 2:5 Forgiveness and a New Life
Mark 2:13 A Walk by the Sea
Mark 2:14 Christ’s Call
Mark 2:16 Consorting with Sinners
Mark 2:21-22 Things which Differ
Mark 2:27-28 A National Treasure
Mark 2:27-28 From the Days of Creation until Now
Mark 3:1 Faith and Unbelief Contrasted
Mark 3:5 The Anger of Christ
Mark 3:5 Judgment and Mercy
Mark 3:5 The Human Side of a Miracle
Mark 3:13 Calling and Election
Mark 3:13-15 The Christian Ministry
Mark 3:14 The Ministry of Preaching
Mark 3:17‘Boanerges’
Mark 3:27 The Conflict between Good and Evil
Mark 3:27 The Strong Man Armed
Mark 3:28-29 Sin against the Holy Ghost
Mark 3:34-35 Divine Relationships
Mark 3:34-35 Doing the Will of God
Mark 4:3-4 Wasted Seed
Mark 4:5 Lacking Depth
Mark 4:7 The Thorns of Prosperity
Mark 4:8 Good Soil yields Good Fruit
Mark 4:24-25 The Responsibility of the Pew
Mark 4:26-29 Natural Law in the Spiritual World
Mark 4:26-29 Attributes and Uses of the Divine Seed
Mark 4:26-29 What is your Growth?
Mark 4:30-31 Marks of the Church
Mark 4:30-31 The Kingdom of God
Mark 4:34 Alone with Christ
Mark 4:35-41 Christ in the Tempest
Mark 4:39 The Secret of a Quiet Mind
Mark 4:40-41 The Two Fears
Mark 5:2 From the Power of Satan unto God’
Mark 5:9 Satan’s Legions
Mark 5:19 The Christian in the Home
Mark 5:25-27 The Believing One and the Unbelieving Many
Mark 5:25-27 Imperfect Faith
Mark 5:34 Faith-Healing
Mark 5:36 Faith and Life
Mark 5:41 The Emancipation of Woman
Mark 5:43 Feeding upon Christ
Mark 6:2-3 The Supremacy of Christ
Mark 6:5 The Power of Unbelief
Mark 6:6 Jesus Marvelled
Mark 6:7-12 The Mission of the Twelve
Mark 6:16 The Power of a Good Life
Mark 6:18 The Witness of the Baptist
Mark 6:20 Where Herod Failed
Mark 6:26-27 One Sin
Mark 6:31 The Rest by the Way
Mark 6:39 Fed of God
Mark 6:48 Mysterious Passages of Life
Mark 6:56 Healed by a Touch
Mark 7:13 The Influence of Tradition
Mark 7:20; Mark 7:23 Evil from Within
Mark 7:24 The Epiphanies of the Ministry
Mark 7:28-29 Perseverance in Prayer
Mark 7:32-35 Hearing and Speech restored by Christ
Mark 7:32 The Use and Misuse of Speech
Mark 7:33 Aside from the Multitude
Mark 7:33 Taken Aside by Sickness
Mark 7:34 Why did Christ Sigh?
Mark 7:34 The Sigh of Sympathy
Mark 7:34 The Sigh Interpreted
Mark 7:34 The Sympathies of Christ
Mark 7:34‘Ephphatha!’
Mark 7:34 Dumb because Deaf
Mark 7:34 The Two Ephphathas
Mark 7:37 The Testimony of the Multitude
Mark 7:37 Spiritual Service
Mark 8:2 Fullness of Grace and Goodness
Mark 8:2‘Man’s Extremity is God’s Opportunity’
Mark 8:2 The Compassionate Saviour
Mark 8:4 Bread in the Wilderness
Mark 8:4 The Bread of Life
Mark 8:5 Human Agency and God’s Work
Mark 8:6 The Divine Economy
Mark 8:9‘All Things come of Thee’
Mark 8:24 The Gradual Miracle
Mark 8:29 The Great Confession
Mark 8:29 Who is This?
Mark 8:33 The Great Rebuke
Mark 8:34 Christ’s Followers
Mark 8:34 Two Antagonists
Mark 8:36 Profit and Loss
Mark 8:36 The Importance of Life
Mark 8:37 The Value of a Soul
Mark 8:37 The Discipline of the Soul
Mark 9:2 Transfigured!
Mark 9:2 The Heavenly Vision
Mark 9:2 The Way to the Mount
Mark 9:5 An Impetuous Answer
Mark 9:7 Hear Him
Mark 9:8 Christ All in All
Mark 9:10 The Rising of the Dead
Mark 9:23 The Possibilities of Faith
Mark 9:24 Faith and Doubt
Mark 9:24 Modern Unbelief
Mark 9:29 The Lenten Fast
Mark 9:36-37 Christ in the Child
Mark 9:36-37 The Child in the Midst
Mark 9:41‘Whose I am’
Mark 9:41 Not your Own
Mark 9:50 Purity and Peace
Mark 10:13-16 Christ and the Children
Mark 10:13-16 Responsibility for Children
Mark 10:14 The Friend for Little Children
Mark 10:14 Child-Rescue
Mark 10:15 Modern Culture
Mark 10:21-22 The Lost Opportunity
Mark 10:22 Civilisation and Worship
Mark 10:23-26, r.v. The Church and Wealth
Mark 10:23-26, r.v. Christianity and Riches
Mark 10:23-26, r.v. The Love of Money
Mark 10:29 Multum in Parvo
Mark 10:31 Bargaining in Religion
Mark 10:32 Fearers yet Followers
Mark 10:32-33 Christ’s Foreknowledge of Suffering
Mark 10:37 Excelsior!
Mark 10:38 The Fellowship of Christ’s Sufferings
Mark 10:40 Position in Heaven
Mark 10:43-45, r.v. Christian Service
Mark 10:45 Divine Meekness
Mark 10:45 The Atonement
Mark 10:46-52 A Parable of Life
Mark 10:49 The Higher Life
Mark 10:50 Garments to be Cast Away
Mark 10:52 Opened Eyes
Mark 11:1-6 The Social Influence of Christ
Mark 11:3‘The Needs of God’
Mark 11:3 An Individual Appeal
Mark 11:9 Christ the Subject of Song
Mark 11:13-14 The Barren Fig Tree
Mark 11:15-16 In the Court of the Gentiles
Mark 11:22 Faith and Spiritual Life
Mark 11:24, r.v. Private Prayer
Mark 11:24, r.v. Faith and Prayer
Mark 11:24, r.v. Limit, Range, Warrant
Mark 11:33 In the Dark at Noontide
Mark 12:9 The Lost Vineyard
Mark 12:16-17 God and Cæsar
Mark 12:16-17 The World and Christ
Mark 12:24 The Sadducees Confuted
Mark 12:28 A Great Question Answered
Mark 12:28-31 The Double Commandment
Mark 12:29-31 The Link between the Two Commandments
Mark 12:30 The Discipline of the Soul
Mark 12:34 Not far from the Kingdom
Mark 12:34 Why was He Near?
Mark 12:44 A Great Gift
Mark 13:1-2, r.v. The Conventional and the Moral
Mark 13:4 When?
Mark 13:10 The Gospel and the Nations
Mark 13:34, r.v. The Absentee Householder
Mark 13:34, r.v. Work and its Privileges
Mark 13:34, r.v. The Call to Work
Mark 13:34, r.v. The Law of the House
Mark 13:35-36 The Master’s Coming
Mark 13:35-36 That Blessed Hope
Mark 13:37 Watching
Mark 14:3 Mary of Bethany’s Offering
Mark 14:4; Mark 14:6 Mary’s Act Judged
Mark 14:4 A Captious Question
Mark 14:6 An Opportune Work
Mark 14:8 Nothing too Small
Mark 14:8 The Gift and its Motive
Mark 14:10-11 Betrayed for Money
Mark 14:19‘Is it I?’
Mark 14:22-24 The Holy Communion
Mark 14:32; Mark 14:34 In Gethsemane
Mark 14:36 Harmony of Will
Mark 14:37 Spiritual Sleep
Mark 14:37 Sleepest Thou
Mark 14:37 Wakefulness
Mark 14:37 Under the Olives
Mark 14:38 Christ’s Exhortation
Mark 14:38 Words from Gethsemane
Mark 14:46 Betrayed and Forsaken
Mark 14:63-64‘I Am’
Mark 14:72 St. Peter’s Fall
Mark 15:15 Pilate’s Sin
Mark 15:15-19 Christ’s Humiliation
Mark 15:22-23 The Mortification of Bodily Desires
Mark 15:31 The Lessons of Failure
Mark 15:31 The Mistake of those that Passed by
Mark 15:34 The Word from the Cross
Mark 15:39 A Confession of Faith
Mark 15:39 The Union of the Divine with the Human
Mark 15:37-38 The Rent Veil
Mark 16:3 The Stone at the Door
Mark 16:3 Imaginary Difficulties
Mark 16:6 The Invisibility of the Resurrection
Mark 16:6 Easter Lessons
Mark 16:7 Why ‘Into Galilee’?
Mark 16:9 The First Appearance of the Risen Lord
Mark 16:15‘Into all the World’
Mark 16:19 Ascended into Heaven
Mark 16:19 Rejoice!
Mark 16:19 The Purposes of the Ascension
Mark 16:19 The Significance of the Ascension
Mark 16:19 The Blessings of the Ascension
Mark 16:19 Results of the Ascension
Mark 16:20 Christ in the World
Mark 16:20 Christ’s Co-operation
Mark 16:20 Preparation and Effect